Our boy Donald appears to be a eugenicist. His verbal output is heedless and Homeric, an epic spew of exaggeration and invention, so it's probably possible to attribute anything to him but in the sea of particulars there are recurring elements relating to a half-coherent, emotional outlook.
His own greatness arises continuously, as a theme, and the ridicule-inducing awfulness of anyone who opposes him. Most fundamentally he sees himself as a winner and as the winner in a genetic lottery. He struggles to find ways to comprehend and convey his excellence, the extent of it making it hard.
But there are disturbing behavioral traits in Trumpistan, among them the insatiable need for attention and adulation corresponding to the psychological concept of compensation. Compensatory striving doesn't come from confidence and self-regard but the opposite: insecurity and feelings of worthlessness.
These characteristics could be catastrophic in a world leader since everything would be about him, no matter how obviously not. It's possible that Trump would rise to the occasion with his personal resources in hand and realize that doing a good job earns him the esteem he so craves but it's unlikely and a poor bet.
Consider his cluelessness and immaturity in defending the tasteless trail of crap he has bequeathed to the world. His presidency would be a virtual version of that, no doubt. The pride he shows in his DNA is the sort of thing that has resulted in the murders of perceived racial inferiors in various conflicts all over the place.
It may be childlike but it's not innocent or acceptable. So the horror of some people, sensing his insecurity and essential smallness, at the prospect of a Trump presidency is justified. He may not actively promote human selective breeding but it would be reasonable in relation to his evaluation of himself and beginning with himself.
He backed into it but Trump is a believer in eugenics, in racial superiority and the accidental, in his case and presumably, results of genetic beneficence and good breeding. Trump arrived there as a byproduct and happenstance of trying to understand and assert his own exceptional nature.
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